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| Prominent Images in the history of ethics |
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| 1) The idea that the feminine is that which is to be over come 2) The idea that female experience is natural and therefore irrelevant to morality 3) The idea that women are inherently irrelevent to morality. |
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| The idea that moral theory needs transformation |
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| It needs transformation from traditional theory that women aren't equal to men. |
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| 1) Reason/Emotion 2) Public/Private 3) Concept of Self |
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| prioritization at the detriment of emotion, Deontology and Utilitarianism both sacrifice emotion for reason |
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| There is nothing done in private that is moral, only in public |
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| The way moral theorists conceptualize themself |
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| 2 Reasons there is no central feminist theory |
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| 1) Dialectical conversation going on between feminists 2) Feminists are weary of having one philosopher to set out feminist theory |
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| Region of Particular Others |
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| People between the isolated self and the universal all |
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| 2 forms of Priority of Reason |
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| Kant's Deontology and Mill's Utilitarianism |
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| The only serious philosphical problem |
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| the realization that life is meaningless |
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| One encounters the absurd when one has a conflict in the heart between... |
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| Unity and order, but all breaks down and the heart wants order in it |
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| When you encounter the absurd |
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| you experience weariness and it marks the spark of consciousness, you begin to ask "why?" |
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| you should revolt form committing suicide and you should revolt against death |
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| When you choose your value, your meaning, life is lived passionately |
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| He was banned to Hades, then he makes a deal and is put back to Earth and after a few years the god of Hades makes him push a rock up a hill and at the top it falls down for all eternity, its a metaphor for life |
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| Existence preceeds essence |
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| All existentialists start with existence preceeds essence, that means... |
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| Our purpose is defined before we exist |
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| 1) The idea that man is nothing more than his choices, what we create for ourselves 2) We can never transcend that condition |
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| You are responsible for every choice made and... |
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| Not making a choice is a choice |
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| 1) We are responsible for creating our life 2) In every act, not only are you choosing for yourself but also choosing for all mankind |
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| The chilling feeling that accompanies the realization that in everything I do, I choose for all mankind |
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| The distress that accompanies the realization that God doesn't exist, man is free and there are no excuses to legitimize conduct |
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| The realization that we can only count on our own will and we must reckon with probabilities. |
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| One owns something which means they have an exclusive claim right |
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| Principle with Limited Liability |
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| Stockholders financial liability is limited to a fixed sum usually the value of the individuals investment |
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| An effect of a transaction between two parties that impacts a third party not involved in the original transaction |
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| CEOs Business Responsibility |
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| Maximize profit for the shareholders |
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| Taxation without Representation |
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| Taxing without consent from shareholders and consumers, THEFT |
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| Great virtue of private enterprise |
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| Competition, nobody can exploit any other individual |
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| If government steps in it will market the market principle based on unanimity replaced with conformity |
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| 1) With money comes power and with power comes great responsibility 2)Worrying about social responsibilities is somebody else's job besides a corporation |
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